Chapter 291: The Imperial Expedition?

Yang Feng then arrived in Daning.

Princess Ning did not resist, but just closed the door of the palace and refused to meet on the grounds that there were no adult men in the palace and it was inconvenient to receive outsiders.

Of course, Yang Feng was not interested in going to the palace to meet people.

He released the imprisoned Bu Wan and others, and then re-presided over the Daning Dusi with Bu Wan.

However, in order to reassure the generals who followed Chen Heng before, Yang Feng singled out the elites who participated in the Western Expedition to be under the command of a general who followed Chen Heng, so as to ensure that Bu Wan would not take revenge for personal gain. At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was in Kaiping, and he had completed the integration of the entire Xuanda, but it was more accurate to say that it was an armed parade, after all, in the current situation, the vast majority of guards were only self-preservation. Anyway, this kind of imperial infighting is for the local guards, just wait honestly, who is the emperor is not the Zhu family.

Zhu Gaoxu took 10,000 cavalry out of Juyongguan to the north, and then met with Daigu Erfan, a total of 30,000 cavalry to Kaiping in the north.

And 10,000 of the Jin clan rode into Datong.

The guards from all over the country played one after another, and the guards of the five feudal domains crossed the border without authorization, but most of the elite guards did not return from the westward expedition and were powerless to fight against them.

You can only keep your own door behind closed doors.

This, of course, was reported to the imperial court.

In fact, the gates of each city are open, but he made an appointment with Zhu Gaoxu not to enter the city, the latter passed by and garrisoned outside the city, and the merchants in the city were willing to sell military supplies to him casually, and the king of Yan was rich, and there were countless loots in the west.

Not to mention the conquest of the Japanese state and the garrison of Fusang over the years, all of which are making money.

It is said that the gold and silver mining of Fuso is supervised by him.

Zhu Gaoxu showed off his military power all the way, and the civil officials who originally supervised the military generals, because of their dissatisfaction with Zhu Yunxi, all colluded with the generals of the guard, and let him move freely in this area, and finally got the news of Yang Feng's westward advance, Zhu Gaoxu immediately led the army into Kaiping. The governor of Kaiping, Tongzhi Shengxi, directly abandoned the army and fled, giving Kaiping City to him, so Yang Feng's next step was to solve Zhu Gaoxu first and then go south to Beiping.

As for the west, don't worry about it.

As long as he chooses to support Zhu Yunxi, then Princess Jin will solve this problem.

As for those of Yang Feng's subordinates who were still leading west from Liaodong, and the news that he finally started at this time had also spread rapidly in various places.

Capital.

"The dead ghost has finally remembered."

The little princess said with satisfaction.

Then she looked at her female history with a very murderous gaze.

"Princess, it's useless for you to complain about me, he asked me to do it."

The latter said very calmly.

Zhang Ying told Yang Feng about Yang Feng in Huining in front of Zhang Xianzong and others, but the little princess didn't know about it in advance, so she was very passive at this moment, and the emperor thought that she was deliberately concealing, and she obviously didn't have a good face recently......

Of course, it may also be angry with Lan Yu.

Lan Yu had just played, and it was obvious that in a disrespectful tone, he accused the emperor of not listening to those ministers, and the current situation was largely due to his lack of decisiveness. His uncles had already openly raised troops, and instead of taking this opportunity to quickly announce that they were all in rebellion, and then solve the problem of the vassal king in one fell swoop, they listened to what those civil servants were talking about? That's how you learned from your grandfather? Your grandfather's biggest advantage is that he is decisive in killing, and he has reached this level, what do you care about uncle? It's the uncles who should be killed quickly, as long as you make an order, it is clear that the kings are rebelling and making trouble, and there are killers to seal the marquis, and it will not take half a month to absolutely take Kaifeng.

At that time, all the vassal kings will die unexpectedly in every possible way that suits them.

Zhu Yunxi also understood that Lan Yu was in a position of being responsible for him, but the problem was that this attitude of treating him as a junior made him very annoyed.

He is no longer the emperor's grandson.

He is now the emperor.

Even if you are the emperor and his uncle, you have to understand that you are a minister.

So it's not entirely because of suspicion of his aunt.

He still trusts his aunt very much, after all, he also knows that his aunt must listen to Yang Feng more, and he can't have too much hope for this kind of person who can't be counted as the Zhu family for a long time, and the daughters who married when the Yi three clans were not included!

Well, his aunt doesn't seem to be married yet!

"Vixen!"

The little princess looked at Zhang Ying and said angrily.

"Princess, I've heard that the one in the Western Regions is very charming."

Zhang Ying shifted hatred.

"Hmph, you're all vixens."

The little princess said.

"Get out of the way, urgent military affairs!"

With anxious shouts, a group of cavalry galloped forward, and on a horse in the middle of the cavalry, a middle-aged Confucian was expressionless.

The little princess's eyes widened instantly.

"Fang, Fang, Fang Xiaoru?"

She exclaimed.

Zhang Ying also recognized it, and her eyes widened as well.

Fang Daru, who is still wanted at present, fled out of Beijing with the king of Guangze County, and instigated Qi Tai to rebel in Lishui, and then went to Suzhou to incite the gentry to rebel, and suddenly appeared in the capital in this way, and it was still under the protection of the army, which can be described as weird.

Zhang Ying stepped forward without hesitation, and she, riding Yang Feng's big white horse, immediately caught up with the cavalry and followed aside, walking along while questioning, and quickly turned around and returned after asking......

Fang Xiaoru suddenly left Suzhou and surrendered to Wu Shou'an, saying that the king of Guangze in Qi Tai was fake, and it was he who conspired with Qi Tai to lie to the king of Guangze with a nephew of Qi Tai, and then coaxed Yao Shan, the prefect of Suzhou, to raise troops with a false edict. But after the army, he wanted to quickly send someone to welcome back the king of Guangze, and Qi Tai always prevaricated, he suspected that Qi Tai wanted to wait for the city of Kaifeng to break, and the king of Guangze died in the chaos, and he continued to use his nephew as the king of Guangze to steal the country. Fang Xiaoru and him have torn their faces, he wants to kill Fang Xiaoru, but thanks to the help of Huang Yue and others in the city, he escaped from Suzhou, came to report to the emperor, and was willing to go to Suzhou to testify the truth for the emperor. ”

Zhang Ying said.

"Sure enough, it's fake, I'll just say that we are in Kaifeng, how can we say that Yun Wei is still in Kaifeng!

These dogs are so bold! ”

The little princess sneered.

Although Zhu Yunwen was very careful to hide during Kaifeng, he couldn't hide the pervasive intelligence network of the banking system, and after the appearance of the Guangze King of Lishui before, the little princess immediately asked the bank in Kaifeng to investigate whether he really left Kaifeng, but the latter's report to her was that it was likely to still be in Kaifeng.

Lishui: That's a fake.

Subsequently, the bank in Suzhou also reported that judging from the performance of the Guangze King in Suzhou, it was likely to be a fake.

Now you can be sure.

But this is not useful, everyone knows that the Suzhou gentry support him, in fact, it is a tablet, it doesn't matter if he is really or not, the important thing is that there is a king of Guangze in Suzhou.

"Let's go, enter the palace!"

The little princess said.

Then she turned on her watch and asked Sister Liu to tell Yang Feng.

Her watch can't be charged, so it can only be used as an emergency communication tool, and it has to be turned off quickly after use, but fortunately, the standby time of this thing is relatively long, and in this way of occasionally turning on, it has not run out of power for half a year now.

When they arrived at the palace, Fang Xiaoru had been urgently summoned by the emperor.

The little princess was waiting outside.

Soon Zhang Xianzong came out of the Qianqing Palace, looked at them with a solemn face, and then pointed to the west.

The little princess immediately woke up, and quickly took Zhang Ying out of the palace and then turned to Xi'an Gate, and soon after they arrived at Xi'an Gate, Zhang Xianzong, who had changed his clothes, walked out of Xi'an Gate. The little princess was in front, Zhang Xianzong followed from afar, they entered a shop of their own on the side of the road, and Zhang Xianzong soon followed in.

"Princess, can you contact Ambassador Yang?"

He said very directly.

"This ......"

The little princess groaned.

Zhang Xianzong pointed to her watch very dryly, meaning that you don't pretend.

"Well, what's the matter?"

The little princess said.

"Hurry up and contact Ambassador Yang and tell him that Fang Xiaoru is persuading His Majesty to recruit in person."

Zhang Xianzong said.

"Pro-conscription?"

The two women exclaimed.

"Yes, Fang Xiaoru said that he was willing to make meritorious service for his crimes, and asked His Majesty to personally conquer Suzhou, and he publicly testified to the Suzhou military and civilians in Suzhou that the king of Guangze in it was fake, and exposed Qi Tai's conspiracy, so that the Suzhou military and civilians would naturally no longer resist. And Your Majesty can take this opportunity to let the people of Jiangnan see the face of the sky, so that the people's hearts are naturally stable, and there will be no more people who rebel, Your Majesty is quite moved, and has summoned the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six ministers into the palace to discuss. ”

Zhang Xianzong said.

"So, you're worried that these people will support it, and Your Majesty will be prone to accidents once he is in person?

Are you even worried that Fang Xiaoru did it on purpose?

And are you worried that these ministers in the DPRK and China, even if they know that Fang Xiaoru is a fraudulent surrender, out of dissatisfaction with His Majesty, they will pretend not to know, and then cooperate with him? ”

The little princess immediately came to her senses.

Her mind is still very good.

Zhang Xianzong nodded silently.

"So, you are already convinced that these civil servants in the court are actually not loyal?"

Zhang Ying said.

"Zhang Nushi, there is no need to say any more, if the ministers of the DPRK and China all support His Majesty's personal conquest, with His Majesty's temperament, it will definitely be done, from the capital to Suzhou, the Yangtze River waterway to the canal, hundreds of miles of waterway, if someone wants to be unfavorable to Your Majesty, there will be countless opportunities along the way."

Zhang Xianzong said.

"All of them are loyal ministers, but in fact, they all have their own ghosts."

The little princess said angrily.

Then she quickly turned on her watch again.

Kaiping.

Ambassador Yang lined up again.

"You're pretty good at playing!"

He looked at the city gate that was being opened, and listened to Sister Liu's relay with emotion.

He was almost immediately convinced that Fang Xiaoru had surrendered by fraud.

It was to lure the emperor out of the capital.

As for those ministers in the court, Zhang Xianzong should know better than him, and even if this is the case, this choice is not surprising, after all, most of those in the court are Confucian. Although Ru Yu is indeed not from the imperial examination, he is also from Confucianism, not to mention Zhu Yunxi's reform, which is obviously to completely abandon the old method of taking scholars. According to the plan, the future is to replace the old schools with those new schools, spread outward from the capital, and continue to build more new schools in the Ming Dynasty, so as to cultivate talents, and then let these talents enter the officialdom through the new imperial examination.

Step by step, with fresh blood, all the old bureaucrats will be washed away.

These are the old bureaucrats.

And the roots behind these old bureaucrats are also the old gentry.

The old gentry, of course, was also the Confucian gentry.

If they still govern the country with Confucianism, they can always surpass those ordinary people by virtue of the so-called cultural advantages of cultivating and reading heirlooms, after all, this kind of ancestors have been Confucian heirlooms for generations, and they are not on the same starting line as ordinary people.

Their family's collection of books alone is enough to crush ordinary people.

In the late Ming Dynasty, most of the Jiangnan imperial examination families were also book collectors.

In the end, the imperial examination became a family.

Scholarly hereditary.

In the Qing Dynasty, on average, more than 60 percent of the Jinshi in the imperial examination had people and jinshi within three generations, 20 percent had talents within three generations, and the remaining 10 percent were those who had no merit within three generations, but if it was relaxed to less than five generations, only 4 percent would be left for those who had no merit in their true ancestors. But if the new study and new imperial examination are implemented, then all of them are on the same starting line, and the Confucianism passed down by their family is useless, even if your ancestors are great Confucians, you have to learn the new learning with a peer from a pure peasant family.

Let's fight for the future with their own abilities.

It is certainly unbearable.

Zhu Yuanzhang can do this, they are indeed afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang.

But Zhu Yunxi can't.

For he did not have a mountain of human heads under his grandfather's feet.

"If Zhu Yunxi dies suddenly, then it is true that Zhu Yunxi can be pushed to the throne.

But have they ever thought about Zhu Di? ”

Sister Liu said with interest.

I have to say that the battle for the throne of the Ming Dynasty after being completely disrupted by Yang Feng has also made her more and more involved in watching the excitement.

"Zhu Di?"

Yang Feng smiled.

"Do you think that Zhu Di is really clean? Liu Rong and Ma He didn't do anything for their Yan King in the middle? Do you think Zhu Di made such a magical operation as defending Kaifeng, just because of the accident of the death of King Xiang?

He is the one who hides the deepest. ”

He went on to say.

Only then did he understand that he was likely to be tricked by Zhu Di.

From the beginning, it is likely that Zhu Di was led behind the scenes, what he was waiting for was that Zhu Yunxi and the two brothers died, Zhu Yunxi was killed by Zhu Yunxi, then he was rebelling, Zhu Yunxi was killed by Zhu Yunxi, then he was avenging his nephew and clearing the king's side. And the reason why he ran to Kaifeng to gather a group of vassal kings to hold on, his real purpose was to wait at the closest distance, waiting for the result he was expecting, although this move was very risky, but he had this confidence.

After all, he has always been invincible.

Blue jade only.

How can a man who has been idle for many years and does not understand the new type of war at all defeat him?

"So this is going back to the old ways?"

Sister Liu said.

"It depends on whether I say yes or not."

Yang Feng said.

At this time, the army in Kaiping City continued to pour out, led by Zhu Gaoxu, the big fat boy of the year, but at this time he had become a standard classical general, with a big waist and a round waist, riding on a sweaty horse. Behind are the elite cavalry in the array, all of them are bright and full of iron armor, riding Arab horses or Central Asian horses, it is obvious that Zhu Di has not stopped sending good things to the sons of Beiping during this period.

"It's time to teach this guy a lesson again, every time I see him, I want to press him to the ground and beat him violently."

Yang Feng sighed.

(End of chapter)